American Film, Volume IV, Number 9
Subtitle: July-August 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: July 1979
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Michael Douglas by Annie Leibovitz. The page count was reduced to 72 pages. $1.75 cover price.

Full-page ads for "Moonraker," "Meatballs," "Escape from Alcatraz," and "Prophecy: The Monster Movie."
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Comment: The Carnegie Report II
pagenum: 6
title: Two replies to Martin Mayer; label: Lehman at Large: On the Importance of Relative Importances
pagenum: 10
title: With screenwriting cometh anxiety; label: Letters
pagenum: 12; label: There's Film in Them Thar Hills!
pagenum: 14
title: New gold strike in the Yukon: 510 reels of "lost film."; label: Big Boom in Movie Posters
pagenum: 20
title: They have moved out of the theater and into the home.; label: On Television, Love Means Never Having to Stop Shouting
pagenum: 25
title: What's really behind all that bickering on situation comedies? Those put-downs that the characters fling at each other may really be bouquets from the heart.; label: Dialogue on Film: Michael Douglas
pagenum: 29
title: The producer and star of "The China Syndrome" talks about the making of the controversial film, how he brought "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" to the screen, his work with James Bridges and Milos Forman, and his acting.; label: Video Spectrum: Using the Tube
pagenum: 40
title: How to use a TV set - count the ways.; label: The Birth of "Children of Paradise"
pagenum: 42
title: Marcel Carné's grandly romantic work has been honored as the greatest sound film made in France. How it was made - during the darkest days of the Nazi occupation - is an eloquent story of talent, courage, and Gallic perseverance.; label: Life Without Mother
pagenum: 50
title: When a woman leaves home to find herself, what happens back home? That's the premise of "Kramer Vs. Kramer," Robert Benton's homage to fatherhood in the liberal seventies.; label: Meryl Streep
pagenum: 51
title: There's no end to her range.; label: About Television: Why Writers Produce
pagenum: 56
title: Richard Levinson: "TV is better than the movies."; label: Letter from Rome
pagenum: 58
title: Another victim of Italian terrorism: filmmaking.; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 60
title: The other Cannes festival - for Television; label: Books
pagenum: 62
title: Reviews; title: "As It Happened: A Memoir" by William S. Paley; title: "Snakes & Ladders" by Dirk Bogarde; title: To the Distant Observer" by Noël Burch; label: AFI News
pagenum: 69; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 72